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Last was a leopard shark, billeted in close quarters, looking bilious and rapacious. I watched him swim urgently into the wall, forced to close a circle despite his desire to strike out on a straight line; the passion for linearity, the fatality of circularity, the bleak, self-depleting alternation of ferocity and grim quiescence; above all, the constriction, the small diameter of the circle, with the glass portion of the circumference flashing ever changing, ever irrelevant glimpses of the other spectator strolling among the circles, always falling imperceptibly to his right; these thoughts passed through my mind. The circle...
...equipment, including 27,000 weapons, 4,500 Jeeps and trucks and 500 artillery pieces, was handed over to the South Vietnamese and other U.S. units. As the pull-out date neared, nonessential supplies all but disappeared. The base PX ran out of everything but men's swim trunks. Two "massage" parlors and the Crossroads Bar just outside the main base, foreseeing a disastrous curve in the local business cycle, closed down...
...seal hunters on the ice floes of the Gulf of St. Law rence would kill and skin only "beat ers" - month-old pups whose fur had turned a less-appealing brown and whose eyes no longer reflected the same degree of trust and innocence. And because the beaters could swim, went the reasoning, the St. Lawrence hunters would have to use guns, not clubs, to take their limit of 50,000 pups. "Those who protested the kill ings," said a bored Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, "won't be shown the same pictures of baby seals with their big blue...
...even ??-fed of six heats with the winner being date ??aitned on the basis of there Watson who had ranked only 30th in the 1650 before the meet had to swim in one of the slowest heats. and consequently was not pressed by competition He won his race easily...
Watson is representing the Ft. Lauderdale Swim Association at the AAU's because it was able to pay all his expenses while Harvard could only afford part of his airline fare...